Character Analysis - Natalie Goodman from "Next to Normal"

1. Natalie Goodman; 16; doesn't have many friends, later dates Henry; pale and overworked or frazzled
2. Natalie feels like she's screwed up and invisible because of her dead brother.
3. High-strung, overachieving, talented, confusing, anxious
4. Natalie worries about and resents her mother Diana but tries to impress her; grows to love Henry; loathes Gabe, the brother she never met; and has an average relationship with her father, Dan.
5. Dan loves his daughter as a father, Henry loves Natalie in a romantic sense, and Diana is somewhat uncomfortable around her but gives her the love she can.
6. Natalie is largely neglected by her parents. Diana is stuck on Gabe, and Dan spends his time taking care of Diana. Natalie shares the neglect with her boyfriend Henry. Diana's ECT treatments work for some time, but when she remembers Gabe, she leaves Dan and Natalie on their own.
7. Natalie is angered and hurt by her parents' actions, so she pours that energy into music. The piano lets her make sense of things.
8. Talented, hurt, tense, prodigy, perfectionist, accomplished, ambitious, nervous, private, rebellious
9. She has her odd relationship with her family and her romantic relationship with Henry. He's her first adolescent love. Natalie doesn't have any close friends.